MPlayer - The Movie Player
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MPlayer - The Movie Player

http://www.mplayerhq.hu

Copyright © 2000-2009 MPlayer team

License

MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

MPlayer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with MPlayer; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

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1. Introduction

2. Installation

2.1. Software requirements

2.2. Features

2.3. What about the GUI?

2.4. Fonts and OSD

2.4.1. TrueType fonts
2.4.2. bitmap fonts
2.4.3. OSD menu

2.5. Codec installation

2.5.1. Xvid
2.5.2. x264
2.5.3. AAC
2.5.4. AMR
2.5.5. XMMS

3.1. Command line

3.2. Subtitles and OSD

3.3. Control

3.3.1. Controls configuration
3.3.2. Control from LIRC
3.3.3. Slave mode

3.4. Streaming from network or pipes

3.4.1. Saving streamed content

3.5. Edit Decision Lists (EDL)

3.5.1. Using an EDL file
3.5.2. Making an EDL file

4. Advanced audio usage

4.1. Surround/Multichannel playback

4.1.1. DVDs
4.1.2. Playing stereo files to four speakers
4.1.3. AC-3/DTS Passthrough
4.1.4. MPEG audio Passthrough
4.1.5. Matrix-encoded audio
4.1.6. Surround emulation in headphones
4.1.7. Troubleshooting

4.2. Channel manipulation

4.2.1. General information
4.2.2. Playing mono with two speakers
4.2.3. Channel copying/moving
4.2.4. Channel mixing

4.3. Software Volume adjustment

5. CD/DVD usage

5.1. CD/DVD drives

5.1.1. Linux
5.1.2. FreeBSD

5.2. DVD playback

5.2.1. region code

5.3. VCD playback

6.1. TV input

6.1.1. Compilation
6.1.2. Usage tips
6.1.3. Examples

6.2. Teletext

6.2.1. Implementation notes
6.2.2. Using teletext
6.2.3. Teletext hot keys

7.1. Radio input

7.1.1. Compilation
7.1.2. Usage tips
7.1.3. Examples

8. Video output devices

8.1. Setting up MTRR

8.2.1. 3dfx cards
8.2.2. S3 cards
8.2.3. nVidia cards
8.2.4. ATI cards
8.2.5. NeoMagic cards
8.2.6. Trident cards
8.2.7. Kyro/PowerVR cards
8.2.8. Intel cards

8.5. SVGAlib

8.6. Framebuffer output (FBdev)

8.7. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)

8.8. 3Dfx YUV support

8.9. tdfx_vid

8.10. OpenGL output

8.11. AAlib – text mode displaying

8.12. libcaca – Color ASCII Art library

8.13. VESA - output to VESA BIOS

8.15. VIDIX

8.15.1. svgalib_helper
8.15.2. ATI cards
8.15.3. Matrox cards
8.15.4. Trident cards
8.15.5. 3DLabs cards
8.15.6. nVidia cards
8.15.7. SiS cards

8.16. DirectFB

8.17. DirectFB/Matrox (dfbmga)

8.18. MPEG decoders

8.18.1. DVB output and input
8.18.2. DXR2
8.18.3. DXR3/Hollywood+

8.19. Other visualization hardware

8.19.1. Zr
8.19.2. Blinkenlights

8.20. TV-out support

8.20.1. Matrox G400 cards
8.20.2. Matrox G450/G550 cards
8.20.3. Building a Matrox TV-out cable
8.20.4. ATI cards
8.20.5. nVidia
8.20.6. NeoMagic

9.1.1. Debian packaging
9.1.2. RPM packaging
9.1.3. ARM Linux

9.2.1. FreeBSD
9.2.2. OpenBSD
9.2.3. Darwin

9.3. Commercial Unix

9.3.1. Solaris
9.3.2. HP-UX
9.3.3. AIX
9.3.4. QNX

9.4. Windows

9.4.1. Cygwin
9.4.2. MinGW

9.5. Mac OS

9.5.1. MPlayer OS X GUI

10. Basic usage of MEncoder

10.1. Selecting codecs and container formats
10.2. Selecting input file or device
10.3. Encoding two pass MPEG-4 ("DivX")
10.4. Encoding to Sony PSP video format
10.5. Encoding to MPEG format
10.6. Rescaling movies
10.7. Stream copying
10.8. Encoding from multiple input image files (JPEG, PNG, TGA, etc.)
10.9. Extracting DVD subtitles to VOBsub file
10.10. Preserving aspect ratio

11. Encoding with MEncoder

11.1. Making a high quality MPEG-4 ("DivX") rip of a DVD movie

11.1.1. Preparing to encode: Identifying source material and framerate

11.1.1.1. Identifying source framerate
11.1.1.2. Identifying source material

11.1.2. Constant quantizer vs. multipass

11.1.3. Constraints for efficient encoding

11.1.4. Cropping and Scaling

11.1.5. Choosing resolution and bitrate

11.1.5.1. Computing the resolution

11.1.6. Filtering

11.1.7. Interlacing and Telecine

11.1.8. Encoding interlaced video

11.1.9. Notes on Audio/Video synchronization

11.1.10. Choosing the video codec

11.1.11. Audio

11.1.12. Muxing

11.1.12.1. Improving muxing and A/V sync reliability
11.1.12.2. Limitations of the AVI container
11.1.12.3. Muxing into the Matroska container

11.2. How to deal with telecine and interlacing within NTSC DVDs

11.2.1. Introduction

11.2.2. How to tell what type of video you have

11.2.2.1. Progressive
11.2.2.2. Telecined
11.2.2.3. Interlaced
11.2.2.4. Mixed progressive and telecine
11.2.2.5. Mixed progressive and interlaced

11.2.3. How to encode each category

11.2.3.1. Progressive
11.2.3.2. Telecined
11.2.3.3. Interlaced
11.2.3.4. Mixed progressive and telecine
11.2.3.5. Mixed progressive and interlaced

11.2.4. Footnotes

11.3. Encoding with the libavcodec codec family

11.3.1. libavcodec's video codecs

11.3.2. libavcodec's audio codecs

11.3.2.1. PCM/ADPCM format supplementary table

11.3.3. Encoding options of libavcodec

11.3.4. Encoding setting examples

11.3.5. Custom inter/intra matrices

11.3.6. Example

11.4. Encoding with the Xvid codec

11.4.1. What options should I use to get the best results?
11.4.2. Encoding options of Xvid
11.4.3. Encoding profiles
11.4.4. Encoding setting examples

11.5. Encoding with the x264 codec

11.5.1. Encoding options of x264

11.5.1.1. Introduction
11.5.1.2. Options which primarily affect speed and quality
11.5.1.3. Options pertaining to miscellaneous preferences

11.5.2. Encoding setting examples

11.6. Encoding with the Video For Windows codec family

11.6.1. Video for Windows supported codecs
11.6.2. Using vfw2menc to create a codec settings file.

11.7. Using MEncoder to create QuickTime-compatible files

11.7.1. Why would one want to produce QuickTime-compatible Files?
11.7.2. QuickTime 7 limitations
11.7.3. Cropping
11.7.4. Scaling
11.7.5. A/V sync
11.7.6. Bitrate
11.7.7. Encoding example
11.7.8. Remuxing as MP4
11.7.9. Adding metadata tags

11.8. Using MEncoder to create VCD/SVCD/DVD-compliant files

11.8.1. Format Constraints

11.8.1.1. Format Constraints
11.8.1.2. GOP Size Constraints
11.8.1.3. Bitrate Constraints

11.8.2. Output Options

11.8.2.1. Aspect Ratio
11.8.2.2. Maintaining A/V sync
11.8.2.3. Sample Rate Conversion

11.8.3. Using libavcodec for VCD/SVCD/DVD Encoding

11.8.3.1. Introduction
11.8.3.2. lavcopts
11.8.3.3. Examples
11.8.3.4. Advanced Options

11.8.4. Encoding Audio

11.8.4.1. toolame
11.8.4.2. twolame
11.8.4.3. libavcodec

11.8.5. Putting it all Together

11.8.5.1. PAL DVD
11.8.5.2. NTSC DVD
11.8.5.3. PAL AVI Containing AC-3 Audio to DVD
11.8.5.4. NTSC AVI Containing AC-3 Audio to DVD
11.8.5.5. PAL SVCD
11.8.5.6. NTSC SVCD
11.8.5.7. PAL VCD
11.8.5.8. NTSC VCD

12. Frequently Asked Questions

A. How to report bugs

A.1. Report security related bugs

A.2. How to fix bugs

A.3. How to do regression testing using Subversion

A.4. How to report bugs

A.5. Where to report bugs

A.6. What to report

A.6.1. System Information

A.6.2. Hardware and drivers

A.6.3. Configure problems

A.6.4. Compilation problems

A.6.5. Playback problems

A.6.6. Crashes

A.6.6.1. How to conserve information about a reproducible crash
A.6.6.2. How to extract meaningful information from a core dump

A.7. I know what I am doing...

B. MPlayer skin format

B.1. Overview

B.1.1. Skin components
B.1.2. Image formats
B.1.3. Files

B.2. The skin file

B.2.1. Main window and playbar
B.2.2. Subwindow
B.2.3. Skin menu

B.3.1. Symbols

B.4. GUI messages

B.5. Creating quality skins

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